IS it our imagination, or were more poppies worn more proudly to mark the meaning of the eleventh of the eleventh this year than for a long, long time?

Remembrance Sunday had more resonance, because there was more to contemplate than in previous years. September 11, and the events it sparked, made sure of that.

It's our way to do that quietly, from within. Heaven knows, we've had enough to remember in the past 100 years.

So, no chest-thumping, few hands placed across the heart. Just silent reflection.

Perhaps some of it went to Afghanistan, where war is being waged against extremism with a remarkable mix of the late 19th and early 21st Century technology.

This is an era whose middle-aged generation is the last to have heard first-hand testimony about life in the trenches of the First World War.

If nothing else, the manner of the march towards Kabul provides a present-day echo of events which exist only in history books for those among the younger generation who realise the importance of knowing.

And, we're comforted to know, more of the younger generation do.

That fact only adds to the reasons for the Evening News' quest to identify the body of the Unknown Worcestershire Regiment soldier found on the Somme in November, 1995.

He may be just one of 973 Worcestershires still officially missing on the Somme.

But his family deserves to know what he was doing when he fell, 85 years ago this week.

And they deserve to know that he's been laid to rest having done his bit to defeat tyranny and defend freedom.

Then, as now, we must remember them.